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Gulf of Mexico Register of Marine Species
Citation
Tunnel, W.; Moretzsohn, F. (2026). Gulf of Mexico Register of Marine Species. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=401228 on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/3209
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This checklist (register) in WoRMS lists the marine species present in the Gulf of Mexico. more
It is based on the publication: “Felder, D.L.; Camp, D.K. (Ed.) (2009). Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota: Volume I. Biodiversity. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series. Texas A&M University Press: College Station. ISBN 978-1-60344-094-3. 1393 pp.”
It contains about 14.000 distribution records in WoRMS.
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Brackish water · ASW, Mexico Gulf · Distribution · Species · Taxonomy · Gulf of Mexico
Geographical coverage
Gulf of Mexico [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [Completed]
Parameters
Distribution
Taxonomy
Taxonomy
Contributor
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer
Related datasets
Published in:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more
Publication
Describing this dataset
Felder, D.L.; Camp, D.K. (Ed.) (2009). Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota: Volume I. Biodiversity. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series. Texas A&M University Press: College Station. ISBN 978-1-60344-094-3. 1393 pp.
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2012-09-17
Information last updated: 2026-02-23
